{"id":305,"date":"2018-09-16T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/the-purge-part-3\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:46:00","slug":"the-purge-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/the-purge-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purge (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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The first thing that comes to mind when you think of The Purge is all of the decisions that have to be made about what to keep and what to get rid of. I think that is the easy part. For me, the hard, and more time-consuming, part is actually getting rid of the things you decide not to keep.<\/p>\n

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\nClassifying stuff<\/b>
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\nWe\u2019ve been separating things we want to get rid of into categories. <\/div>\n
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\nCategory 1: Sell<\/b>
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\nThe first category is items which we think have some value and would be relatively easy to sell. For us, this includes things such as a pop-up trailer, piano, truck cargo bed cover, and stamp and coin collections. This sounds easy, but to do this we\u2019ve had to find stamp and coin collectors willing to buy what we\u2019ve had. We\u2019ve had to find someone who specializes in eBay consignments and we\u2019ve had to actively market items on Facebook, NextDoor and Craigslist. It has taken an immense amount of work to get rid of those items.<\/div>\n
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\nCategory 2<\/b>: Donate<\/b><\/span>
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\nThe second category is items that have some value, but we really can\u2019t, or don\u2019t, have the time to sell. Examples include my former Felt racing bike, a nice table and set of chairs, clothing, books and old electronics. Once again, we\u2019ve had to dole these things out to multiple places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s ARC run<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We started out by donating a truckload of items to Lisa\u2019s church\u2019s annual yard sale. We had 15 boxes of books picked up by 50\/50 Bookstore<\/a><\/b>, a pay-as-you-go community bookstore in Denver. We\u2019ve taken multiple (three and counting) truckloads of stuff to donate to our local ARC Thrift Store<\/a><\/b>. We gave a coffee table to a local girl looking to furnish her first college apartment,  a scooter to a neighbor kid, a box of cereal bars to a homeless man.<\/p>\n

Along the way, we\u2019ve discovered items that we\u2019ve borrowed from various people that now need to (finally) be returned.\n<\/div>\n

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\nCategory 3: True Trash
\n<\/b>The final category is items that no longer have value to anyone. It\u2019s not quite as simple as putting them out with the trash, because we don\u2019t want to fill landfills unnecessarily. So we separate our items. Electronics (the outdated stereo system, old computer monitors, cords and useless remotes) go to Best Buy for recycling. Paper, metal and plastic get recycled. Even so, there are items that we have to put out with the trash.<\/div>\n
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\nI\u2019m looking forward to the point in time where we\u2019ve rid the house of the things we no longer want to keep, so we can focus on boxing everything else up.<\/p>\n

(To be continued)<\/i><\/div>\n

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We had to pare this down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The pile in the garage was astronomical<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Burning up old checkbooks and bank statements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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What to do with a moth-eaten old Boy Scout headdress?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nARC got many carloads of stuff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOB The first thing that comes to mind when you think of The Purge is all of the decisions that have to be made about what to keep and what to get rid of. I think that is the easy part. For me, the hard, and more time-consuming, part is actually getting rid of the … <\/p>\n

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